The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-08
Labor and Industrial Notes.

Philadelphia Record
It costs shoe manufacturers at Frankfort q
cents to make uppers for ladies' high-top button
CATERS, while at Lynn the cost is IL cents.
The Anarchist defense fund amounts to $780,,
600, raised mostly by German Socialists 1t is
expected that new trial. If it be granted, will
cost $l5, 900.
The American manufacturers are making
steady Roadway in Australia in crowding out
English agricultural implements, rails, saws,
la mps, hatchets, sewing rnachines, etc.
In Macclesfeld silk factory IA hands throw
500 pounds of Canton silk at 81 % per week. In
a similar American mill eighty hands throw L.,
$50 and l 200 pounds of the same silk for So
The Southern farmers and planters threaten
to have all the laws repealed which permit the
mortgaging of the crops in the field. The rates
of interest are enormous. and the people are
kept poor.
Looms are idle at various points in the New
England and Middle States, so careful are dry
goods manufacturers not to permit an accumu-
lation of stocks. Many brands of cotton goods
have advanced
The jewelers. silversmiths, engravers. chain
makers and watchcase- makers of the United
States will probably form separate district as
sembly. The membership throughout the
United States s said to be 5000. A meeting
was recently held at Newark, N. j., to discuss
| the matter.
| mill to manufacture railroad track joints is
to be built at Rochester Pa; large steel works
u
! established at Beaver Falls, Pa; steel COM
pany will erect 100 houses for workmen twelve
miles above Pittsburg, and 100-ton blast fur
mace is to be erected at Beuefonte.
| The bituminous coal miners mined last year
%, 600 600 short tons of coal. against 90 OO0 600
| in 1885 Pennsylvania gain was 1000, 900 tons,
| and the product of the four counties of Ale
ghany. Westmoreiand, Fayatte and Washington
was IA, SOC, 900 tons last year. or 20 per cent. Of
| the entire bituminous product of the United
| States The total anthracite and btuminous
output last year was 101. ola, 900 TONS
| Since Jan. l 81, 900 mon have struck through
| out the country, az against Al, 200 during SINH
lar period last year. Besides these 16. 300 work
ers in factories are idle account of lack Of coal
Or 104 600 in ALL Out Of eight of last years strikes
! four ended in favor OF the l. ITO men employed
During January ninety strikes were started, in
volvng $4,000 men. OF these thirty-two have
! ended. Twenty-Five were successful Nine
| failed, involving 5, 200 men.
II the Knights could raise money and wisely
| invest it in good properties, such as syndicates
| are doing every week, they would have some
thing moro to show for it than by squandering
| money in cooperative enterprises Good in
vestments are a. be made. Experts can tell
| where they ara Good mineral and timber
properties are advancing In value Capital will
| always keep ahead by purchasing lands and
| minerals, and holding them for the increase in
| value.
| New railroad enterprises are springing up
/ The Union Pacific will construct 1900 miles of
! road; the Atchison people have bagful of rail
! bodybuilding schemes; 260-mile road is to be
built through Louisiana to western Arkansas,
! and road is projected from Illinois to Kansas
City Capital $4,000 000); another from Peoria,
Ill, to Vigo Ind. at cost of So. OOO,0 600; 10
| mile road is to be built in Missouri, and 200
| mile road in Nebraska The number of railroad
schemes is almost endless.
/! So far as labor organizations especially in the
building trades have taken action, their decisions
have been mainly in favor OF a conservative and
quiet course during the looming season. The
| leaders in the various ORGANIZATIONS have coun-
seled this course, and nothing but general up
rising will precipitate strikes for shorter hours
or higher ray One reason for the ouietude is
that the labor masses and all other cooperating
| interests counting largely what will be
undertaken at Cincinnati on the I'D of Febru-
| ary That movement is acting sort OF
safety valve, as it promises to assume a national
character.